Turning Points in the Transformation on the Global Scene
edited by Antoni Kuklinski and by Boguslaw Skuza
available in English
ISBN 83-89188-45-7
Antoni Kuklinski and by Boguslaw Skuza edited this new publication of the Polish Association for the Club of Rome The concept of turning points as an effectice instrument of theoretical reflection and empirical analysis is discussed in this publication in a broad framework of the changing transformation and perception of the Global Scene.
Contents
Preface — ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI, BOGUSLAW SKUZA
PART ONE
THE CHANGING PERCEPTION OF THE GLOBAL SCENE
LOUIS EMMERIJ: Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice
RYSZARD PIASECKI, MIRON WOLNICKI: Development strategies—new challenges
ZDZISLAW L. SADOWSKI: Turning Points: The Oil Crisis of 1973
KATARZYNA ZUKROWSKA: The limited power of oil
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: The turning points in the transformation of the global scene Memorandum I
KATARZYNA ZUKROWSKA: Comment
TOMASZ ZARYCKI: Comment
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: The turning points in the transformation of the global scene Memorandum II
PART TWO
THE CHANGING PERCEPTION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
JEAN-MARIE ROUSSEAU: Building critical advantage around strategic nooks and crannies
of Europe
PAUL DREWE: Quo Vadis European Union? Uncertainties ask for scenarios
TOMASZ GRZEGORZ GROSSE: The turning points in the political and administrative system.
The case of the EU and Poland
KATARZYNA ZUKROWSKA: The European Union: Specificities of an International Actor Who
does not have Army nor Government
PART THREE
METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTION
ANDRZEJ P. WIERZBICKI, YOSHITERU NAKAMORI: Creative Space: a Method of Integration
of Recent Knowledge Creation Theories
MARC HALÉVY – VAN KEYMEULEN: Facing the noetic revolution
ZBIGNIEW MADEJ: Turning Points on The Global Scene—Methodological Problems
DARIUSZ MILCZAREK: Commentary to Professor Zbigniew Madej’s paper: "Turning Points on
The Global Scene—Methodological Problems"
WLADYSLAW OEWITALSKI: The Meaning and Nature of The Turning Point
ADELAIDA REYES: Ethnomusicological Method: Order and Chaos
PART FOUR
TURNING POINTS—THE SCENE OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
JAN BIELAWSKI: OECD Contribution to The Systemic Breakthrough in The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
TOMASZ ZARYCKI: On the Fall of Communism
PIOTR DUTKIEWICZ, VLADIMIR POPOV: Ahead or behind? Lessons from Russia’s postcommunist
transformation
JAN WORONIECKI: Russia: Quo Vadis?
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: The transformation of European Regions at the turn of the XX and XXI
century (1985–2025)
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: The transformation of Mazovia at the turn of the XX and XXI century
(1985–2025). An introduction to a project of diagnostic and prospective studies
MICHAL MIEDZINSKI: Comment on Prof. Kuklinski’s note on "The transformation of Mazovia
at the turn of the XX and XXI century (1985–2025)"
ROMAN GALAR: Few comments on concepts embedded in the 2001 Strategy of Lower Silesia
PART FIVE
TURNING POINT—THE CASE OF CHINA
JEAN-MARIE ROUSSEAU, DANA WANG: Towards which horizons the Dragon would take wing?
KSAWERY BURSKI: China’s economic growth and prospects of further modernization and role
in world economy
KATARZYNA ZUKROWSKA: China starts to produce and consume
PART SIX
PROPOSALS FOR GRAND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: Global development in secular perspective
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: Strategic thinking—methodological and pragmatic reflections
ROMAN GALAR: How to Become an Optimistic Futurologist
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: The Four Megaspaces of the XXI century
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: The transformation of the global scene. The crucial turning points
ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI: The Future of Europe. Two Scenarios